Alternative Radio

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A weekly one-hour progressive radio show featuring lectures & interviews with progressive thinkers.


Every Tuesday from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM.

Alternative Radio, established in 1986, is a weekly one-hour public affairs program offered free to all public radio stations in the US, Canada, Europe and beyond. AR provides information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in other media.



Our program is carried by over 125 radio stations and heard by millions of listeners. It is produced by David Barsamian in Boulder, Colorado.



Alternative Radio is sustained by donations and by your purchases of season subscriptions, recordings and transcripts. You can make a donation, including a recurring amount charged to your credit card each month, from our donations page.



Because Alternative Radio is a syndicated program, we don't have the permissions from them to post their audio files or transcripts. If you go to the Alternative Radio website, you can download their interviews and lectures for a very low price, and help support their work.

http://www.alternativeradio.org
Topic tags: 
Civil Rights/Human Rights, Corporations, Class, Environment/Climate, Global Affairs, Government/Politics
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
Program status: 
Current

Alternative Radio on 03/02/10

Airs at: Tue, 03/02/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Richard Grossman - Revoking Corporate Charters (lecture)Corporations, Corporations. From ExxonMobil to Wal-Mart they dominate society and politics. Over the last 100 years corporations have accrued enormous economic power and legal standing. A corporation is licensed to do... Read more

Alternative Radio on 02/23/10

Airs at: Tue, 02/23/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Lester Brown – Planetary Tipping Points (lecture) Lester Brown's latest book is Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save CivilizationLester Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first-century civilization. The world faces many environmental trends of disruption and ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 02/16/10

Airs at: Tue, 02/16/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Eric Holt-Giménez - Food Sovereignty (lecture)Eric Holt-Giménez is the executive director of FoodFirst/Institute for Food and Development Policy. Eric is the author of the 2009 Food First Book Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice.In 1996 Food First released a ... Read more

Alternative Radio on 02/09/10

Airs at: Tue, 02/09/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Howard Zinn – Against Discouragement (interview)It wasn’t that long ago when the United States labeled the African National Congress as a terrorist organization. Its leader, Nelson Mandela languished for years in prison. Then because of a massive grassroots movement and int... Read more

Alternative Radio on 02/02/10

Airs at: Tue, 02/02/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Amy Goodman - Bridging the Media Gaps (lecture)The political establishment determines the boundaries of conventional discourse. So typically mainstream media debates revolve around: How many troops are required for Afghanistan? Or should drone attacks on Pakistan be expande... Read more

Alternative Radio on 01/26/10

Airs at: Tue, 01/26/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Mark Danner speaks on Torture: Stripping Bare the BodyMark Danner has written about foreign affairs and American politics for more than two decades, covering Latin America, Haiti, the Balkans and the Middle East among other stories. He was for many years a staff writer a... Read more

Alternative Radio on 01/19/10

Airs at: Tue, 01/19/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Irene Khan – Poverty & Human Rights The problem of the world's poor is at its core a human rights issue. The worldwide economic downturn is working its way through every level of the global economy. Many people in the industrialized West are experiencing its negative effect... Read more

Alternative Radio on 01/12/10

Airs at: Tue, 01/12/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Robert Jensen – Religion & Progressive Politics (lecture)The presence of religion in U.S. politics is extensive. There is no shortage of preachers promising salvation. Some tend to be strongly conservative and promote a right-wing agenda. But there is a counter-tradition f... Read more

Alternative Radio on 01/05/10

Airs at: Tue, 01/05/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Chris Hedges speaks on "Empire of Illusion" (lecture)Chris Hedges reported for “The New York Times” for more than a decade. Before that he worked for “The Christian Science Monitor” and National Public Radio. He has covered wars in the Balkans, the Middle East and Central A... Read more

Alternative Radio on 12/29/09

Airs at: Tue, 12/29/2009 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
John Pilger – Imperialism in the Age of Obama  (lecture)John Pilger is an internationally renowned journalist and documentary filmmaker. Born in Australia he's been based in London for many years. He's twice won British journalism's highest award, that of Journalist of th... Read more